Christianity experiencing global shift

Amper twee derdes van die wêreld se twee miljard Christene woon in Afrika, Asië en Latyns-Amerika. Dit verteenwoordig 'n globale demografiese skuif, volgens navorsing wat in hierdie artikel gemeld word.

What were the key religious developments around the turn of the third millennium Anno Domini?

Beyond daily headlines, the most important one is probably the ongoing, inexorable shift of Christianity’s population and dynamism away from the West and toward a markedly different style in developing nations of the "Global South."

Gordon-Conwell seminary’s Center for the Study of Global Christianity says 62 percent of the world’s 2 billion Christians live in Africa, Asia and Latin America, a percentage that’s destined to rise.

Africa’s Christian boom since 1900 “may well be the largest shift in religious affiliation that has ever occurred, anywhere,” says Penn State historian Philip Jenkins.